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Karachi: MQM activist among 3 killed

Karachi: MQM activist among 3 killed

KARACHI: A member of the MuttahidaQaumiMovement’s (MQM) Gilgit–Baltistan Committee was among three people gunneddown as targetkillings continued to plague the city on Wednesday. The MQM activist, AneesAhmed, was shotdead near the DarulUloom in AwamiColony in the KorangiNo. 5 area. The victim was in his early 40s. SuperintendentofPolice (SP) LatifSiddiqi of the ShahFaisalRange said police found the man lying critically wounded in his car, and shifted him to the JinnahPostgraduateMedicalCentre (JPMC), where he breathed his last.

The victim had suffered four bullet wounds. He was shot twice in the neck and the remainder of the bullets hit other parts of his body.

SPSiddiqi added that the empty9mm bullet casings recovered from the scene of the crime were handed to the SindhPolice Lab for forensic tests.

Witnesses told the police that the victim was shot near the DarulUloom by two men who riding on a motorcycle. They said the attackers were dressed in trousers and shirts.

SPSiddiqi said Ahmed lived in Korangi and was a member of the MQM’sGilgit–Baltistan Committee. He had recently joined the MQM after ending his affiliation with AfaqAhmed of the MohajirQaumiMovement–Haqiqi (MQM–H).

The police official added that the victim had two homes. One was in KorangiNo. 5 and the other in Noman Grand City of Gulistan-e-Jauhar. He said that it was most likely that the victim was heading towards his Korangi residence; however, some reports suggested that Ahmed was on his way to the MQM Headquarters when he was attacked. The policeseized the cell phone of the deceased and started their investigation.

The police believed that murder was part of the ongoing wave of targetkillings. The victim left behind a widow and children. A case was reported at the AwamiColonypolicestation.

Following the murder, trouble was witnessed in AwamiColony and other Korangi areas, where armed men resorted to aerial firing and forced shop keepers to pull their shutters down. The situation remained tense till Wednesday night.

In another incident, WaqarAhmed was shotdead in Block 9 of the Dastagirarea near the JavedNihari House in the Jauharabadpolice limits. This incident took place in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

StationHouseOfficer (SHO) NadirKhan of the Jauharabadpolicestation said that the victim died after being taken to the AbbasiShaheedHospital (ASH).

Police cordoned off the crimescene and sent another policeparty to the ASH. They were told that the victim died as a result of two bullet wounds.

SHOKhan said Ahmed was a resident of the area in which he was attacked, and added that he was affiliated with a music group that performed concerts. The victim was shot by two motorcyclists while he was sitting outside his residence. Four empty casings of TTbullets were found at the scene of the crime.

According to Shahzad, the elder brother of the victim, Ahmed had no animosity towards anyone, nor was he affiliated with any political or religious party. Investigators said it was too early to determine the motive behind the murder.

Contrary to Shahzade’s claims, investigators said that the victim supported a political party. They said that the murder seemed to be a targetkilling, but added that the police would investigate the case from other angles too.

In yet another incident, the tortured and bullet-riddled body of 25–year–oldMohammadYaseen was found on a footpath near the BaitulMuqarammosque in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of the AzizBhattipolice limits on Wednesday morning.

Police said they were informed about the body through a phone call and a patrolling mobile unit was sent to the scene. Rescue staffs were also called to the crimescene.

The police found that the body had been packed in a gunnybag. The corpse was shifted to the JinnahPostgraduateMedicalCentre (JPMC) for medico–legalformalities.

A medical examination showed that the victim had been brutally tortured and shot several times in the head by his killers. The AzizBhattipolice claimed that after murdering the victim, the criminals dumped his body in their jurisdiction. Afterwards, information of the recovery of the man was aired on police control.

The police said that a person who identified himself as GhulamFareed — a resident of TessarTown in Surjani – came forward and informed them that his younger brother, MohammedYaseen, had left home on Tuesday night and did not return. He said that he had also lodged a missing person’s complaint at the policestation.

The AzizBhattipolice showed the man some pictures of the recovered body. Fareed identified the victim as his younger brother, Yaseen, and the police, after completing the legalformalities, handedover the body.

The victim was a driver and hailed from RahimyarKhan. Police said that the victim was a supporter of a political party.